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todd--chavez · 2 years

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Just finished this book. Very good important read. As someone from the bay area, I was very familiar with the setting and even remember voting to recall Judge Persky.

Strongly recommend! Have your sons and daughters read this too!

#knowmyname #kintsugi #diane nguyen #chanel miller #know my name #bojack horseman

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rolskaya · 2 years

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50х70cm Mixed media on paper Available #natureabstract #europeanart #abstractfloralpainting #floralartist #abstraction #abstractartist #floralpainting #oilpainter #europeanartist #femaleartist #abstractexpressionism #womenwhocreate #workingartist #expressiveart #contemporarypainting #oilpainting #expression #emergingartist #artforsale #artistinstudio #inmystudio #artstudio #studioscenes #artgirlrising #knowmyname #lisbon #portugal https://www.instagram.com/p/ChpATjrNwvE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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weare-toobusydancing · 2 years

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(Swipe para la versión en español) La semana pasada terminé de leer #KnowMyName de @chanel_miller y tuvo muchísimas frases que me gustaron, y quise dibujar esta. Creer que van a venir cosas buenas después de un trauma o una serie de malos sucesos es difícil, pero tenemos que creer en que va a pasar. Decía su madre: “cosas buenas y malas vienen del universo tomándose la mano. Tienes que esperar que las cosas buenas lleguen”. ✨ Libro recomendadísimo por el Club de Lectura Ilustrado por M. 🤓 #bookstagram #libros #chanelmiller #feminism #feminismo #metoo #yotambien #citas https://www.instagram.com/p/CXtbv3vr88F/?utm_medium=tumblr

#knowmyname #bookstagram #libros #chanelmiller #feminism #feminismo #metoo #yotambien #citas

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audvocadotoastcartoonified · 4 years

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Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name

#digitalart #knowmyname #believewomen

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adayinbookland · 4 years

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Mar 17th, 2020 || @carlaslittlelibrary tagged me to do the #tenonmytbr last week and i wanted to do it sooner but we lost all natural light where i live because clouds decided to hide the sun permanently 🙄🙄 here is my stack. better late than never: . 🌿if we were villains by M. L. Rio 🌿cantoras by Carolina de Robertis 🌿maus by Art Spiegelman 🌿she should be king by Wayetu Moore 🌿before the devil breaks you by Libba Bray 🌿know my name by Chanel Miller 🌿my dark vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell 🌿always another country by Sisonke Msimang 🌿the lies of locke lamora by Scott Lynch 🌿a fine balance by Rohinton Mistry . two of these i wil be reading very soon: before the devil breaks you - continuing with the series asap - and the lies of locke lamora -because i promised () i’ll get to it in april. the other 8 i wish to read before we get halfway through 2020 but who knows… i never stick to my tbr . i have tagged a few of you but no pressure to do it. • • • #afinebalance #theliesoflockelamora #alwaysanothercountry #mydarkvanessa #knowmyname #beforethedevilbreaksyou #shewouldbeking #maus #cantoras #ifwewerevillains #nonfiction #literaryfiction #yafiction #yaliterature #unitedbookstagram #bookaesthetics #bookstagram #pileofbooks #stackofbooks #booksoutofdoors #fortheloveofreading #ilovereadingbooks #tbrpile https://www.instagram.com/p/B916WMPo_fY/?igshid=1t9fns7btdi96

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singalongs · 4 years

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"It is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do."

—Chanel Miller

#chanelmiller #knowmyname

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litsavantbookclub · 4 years

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Know my name Book Review

Hello fellow readers!

Just this past weekend I finished Chanel Miller’s Know my Name, a memoir from the perspective of Emily Doe and her experience of the highly publicized 2015 assault that occurred to her on California’s Stanford University Campus.

I personally remember reading about the case when at work at a CUNY campus and feeling horrified by the details and lack thereof. I remember the lack of identity and empathy that Emily Doe received from a select audience and the strange headlines regarding the defendant. But I digress.

This book was another perspective that adds to the me too conversation. It was refreshing, beautifully eloquent, and many things left myself tearing up in public on my commute. It is a visceral experience that is best digested. I personally savored it in chunks because it was intense and a lot to process.

One of the most endearing and relatable things about the book is Miller wanting to protect those closest to her from the fallout. She states that she “...wanted to preserve their peace” (45). She mentions the story of her parents doing their best to not ruin Christmas for her and her sister. Even though they knew what really happened to the cat. And just like her parents, she compartmentalized moments and breakdowns. She would: “do what I had always done: detach, keep going” (44). But much like those jars that she would hide away in her metaphorical basement, they would come back. They would materialize out of thin air and to her dismay she would start the journey again, deep down.

Miller alludes to her being like one of those departed students from the tracks. She writes: “so on that January morning in 2015...was like being read a letter...it was not about a death on the tracks ...this time, it was my name” (44). I personally remember being that far away from myself. I felt both everything and nothing. And that trauma is hard to describe to others. Miller did so tremendously. It is poignant. And that keenness is sharp and quick to the cut. Miller’s words are as powerful as any weapon but delivered with the soft vulnerability.

Rape, trauma, and the experience of being a victim are just a shortlist of the things that Miller touches on. Moreover, she also highlights the way society and education connect to mental illness. The complex way that things get put on hold and how we as human beings are not supposed to drop the ball even when we’re suffering. This is mentioned as one of the ways that Miller developed her coping mechanism of dissociating from the painful realities of the world: “...we settled for perpetual numbness.” (43). The content states the way Miller and her classmates were urged and encouraged to move on with their lives regardless of the fact that many of their acquaintances and friends were killing themselves. One day they were there, the next gone. No explanation or further harping of the “ugly truth.”

This “perpetual numbness” echoed the idea that even though lives were being lost and morale was low students shouldn’t and eventually couldn’t run the risk of pausing. To be pause meant to stop, to stop meant, to lose momentum. This loss of momentum was precious and because you were going against the grain of what was expected of you. It meant there must be something wrong with you. Miller continues: “to be unstable meant to fall behind” (42). This is something that happens to many people but sometimes these moments can wreak havoc on our lives. But we are humans and we are not perfect. Yet it is expected frequently. And the shame that accompanies our failure to meet such expectations are searing.

Before I get even more ahead of myself, the book was overall, a passionate and poignant account of a woman who lost her voice and identity but found that she always had it. Regardless, of all the smoke and mirrors those determined to tear her down had set up. Approaching the end of her book I’m struck by the following words: “hold up your head when the tears come, when you are mocked, insulted, questioned, threatened, when they tell you you are nothing...” (328). These words will comfort those that have ever been dismissed or sneered at. This empathy can provide guidance and kindness to those who need it.

Rating: 4.25

Keywords: Passionate, poignant, and emotionally wrenching.

#chanelmiller #knowmyname #memoir #peoplevsturner #emilydoe #honestwriting #litsavantbookclub #bookreviews #bookblogger #bookstagram #hardcovers #booklover #bookworm #readingisfundamental #readingismysuperpower

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naomispractice · 5 years

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I don’t give a damn / What you were wearing / I don’t give a damn how much you drank / I don’t give a damn / If you danced with him earlier in the evening / If you texted him first / Or were the one to go back to his place. / People may continue to come up with reasons “why it happened” / But the truth is, I don’t give a damn. But I do / give a damn / How you’re doing / I give a damn about you being okay / I give a damn if you’re being blamed for the hurt you were handed / If you're being made to believe you’re deserving of pain. The only reason I am standing here / Is because people gave a damn about my well-being / Even when I did not. / They reminded me that I carry light / and I deserve to be loved / Even when I forgot. They gave a damn. / That’s why I am who I am today. So here’s the takeaway. / When we step up for survivors / when we stop sealing them off in shame / When we quit interrogating them with stupid questions Look what happens. Books are written, laws are changed, / We remember we were born to create / To not only survive, but look hot and celebrate. Tonight you must come away knowing / That I will always, always give a damn about you / The way you gave a damn about me. -Chanel Miller ✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟 #knowmyname Chanel Miller at the #glamourwoty 👑 https://www.instagram.com/p/B4yit0VDqc4/?igshid=7gbu2skie64b

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softbrutalist · 5 years

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This is not a sculpture by a woman. She lacks the self surveillance of an underconfident gaze, the sweep of a hand to cover stretch marks and aging breasts which draped against the chest like overripened gourds. She meets my eyes with a gaze that lacked the abashed self-fear that makes women look away from others of our sex, but for the communing of souls in public restrooms when liquour has fortified our hearts to one another and compliments are poured from our tongues like honey. She reaches, without a bend in her arm; she reaches, arms straight, with palms turned to the ground and hands peaked into mounds like the man in Brooklyn who reached for my breasts, suspending time around me like amber, petrifying me into submission. No, this is not a sculpture by a woman. And so I tender my gaze to her eyes, lashes sooty and half-blinded by mascara (coated twice, for the comfort of fellow gallery-goers, such that they would know of my effort and desire to be consumed by the art around me). One hand caresses the harsh lines of a phone, capturing her image alongside mine - made static, made temporary. I look around me and then down, too aware of the rise of my shirt against my stomach and the exposure of my rotten flesh; cheeks sallow with flitting shame and fear for the woman I behold, a model before me, naked as she had been immortalized in man’s imagination. Naked as they tell me I should be. And so I reach to her, wrist protected by the amulet as a blessing of my Cypriot grandmother (another enchantress, on an island, who had considered men as swine). I reached not to police her modesty, but to free her from unwanted gaze and to return her gesture - which my brother had once described as “uniquely female, and very unfamiliar” to him. I reached so that she would not be alone in her self tendering and the nudity of her spirit. No, this is not a sculpture by a woman — but after looking, after reaching, after loving, she became a woman, leaving her fingers tented on my own and my eyes brushing away the the bronze cast to reveal a deeper flesh within. #knowmyname (at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx6CBq_h5Fd/?igshid=9vnrk5i3fyly

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perfect-isnt-everything · 2 years

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“We are taught assault is likely to occur, but if you dressed modestly, you’d lower the chances of it being you. But this would never eradicate the issue, only redirecting the assailant to another unsuspecting victim, off-loading the violence.”

- ‘Know My Name’ by Chanel Miller

#KnowMyName #the power behind these words

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cyarskj1899 · 2 years

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rolskaya · 2 years

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60x80cm Mixed media on stretched canvas. Available at @floresdocabo Thank you all for encouraging me to scale my sketches up and transfer them to a canvas. It’s going really good. #Figurativeabstract #europeanart #abstractfloralpainting #floralartist #abstraction #abstractartist #floralpainting #oilpainter #europeanartist #femaleartist #abstractexpressionism #womenwhocreate #workingartist #expressiveart #contemporarypainting #oilpainting #expression #emergingartist #artforsale #artistinstudio #inmystudio # artstudio #studioscenes #artgirlrising #knowmyname #lisbon #portugal (at Flores do Cabo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgrTeOYNqeY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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chewygracybear · 3 years

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We are all angels at a city of angels 👼 Wir sind alle Engel in einer Stadt der Engel (German) Nous sommes tous des anges dans une cité des anges (French). Todos somos ángeles en una ciudad de ángeles (Spanish). Siamo tutti angeli in una città di angeli (Italian). 我们是天使之城的天使呀👼 우리는 모두 천사의 도시에서 천사입니다…(To be continued) #angel #blessed #women #womenempowerment #community #angels #girlbossing #bosslady #beautiful #loved #womensrights #womeninbusiness #knowmyname #shine #weareone #gold #happy #hope #peace #love #loveyourself (at Los Angeles/Hollywood California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUbbvv5F9VY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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redtheruler1 · 6 years

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Had to give it to em last night @miamilivevenue #KnowMyName (at Miami LIVE)

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thetunesclub · 3 years

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Groove with the beats of 'Know My Name' by Malcolm A on Spotify and share with friends...

#MalcolmA #KnowMyName #Spotify #Spotifymusic #Spotifyartist

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adayinbookland · 4 years

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Dec 2nd, 2019 || and here comes the last month of the year before we turn into a new decade. i’ve said before i’m planning on going on a book buying ban in 2020 and will only get those books which are part of any series i have already started. i know i’ll get some books for Christmas for sure but i’m not counting those. . anyways, here is the last book haul of the year... everything that made its way into my shelves since late september. . do you have any plans for 2020 in terms of reading or buying books? which was your latest purchase? 🍁 • • • #knowmyname #novisiblebruises #steelcrowsaga #thesecretcommonwealth #thestarlesssea #fireborne #deeplight #theycamebeforecolumbus #ourwomenontheground #nonfiction #newbooks #bookhaul #booksbooksandmorebooks #allthebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B5kTJNUoRFH/?igshid=1n4zlpdb19cv6

#knowmyname #novisiblebruises #steelcrowsaga #thesecretcommonwealth #thestarlesssea #fireborne #deeplight #theycamebeforecolumbus #ourwomenontheground #nonfiction #newbooks #bookhaul #booksbooksandmorebooks #allthebooks

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